- Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to increase the size of a downtown district where it's illegal to sit or lie down in public rights of way.
- In addition to the $2.975 million the city will pay, it has also agreed to several reforms in the police department, including annual anti-bias training for officers.
- Flight simulators are not new to the academy grounds, though in the past their use was focused on teaching cadets the basic principles of flying aircraft.
- They're still setting new records, and one expert says it might be a decade before housing prices cool off along the Front Range.
- Potential residents will be nominated from human services organizations in Colorado Springs. Initial leases will last for two years to allow tenants to adjust to adult responsibilities and process trauma.
- Following other scrambling local governments in Colorado ski towns, Cripple Creek has issued a nine-month moratorium on opening or operating new short-term rental properties.
- The push has been met with some backlash, though.
- A proposal to put a 25-story apartment building, and a separate, 11-story office building, has some looking to Colorado Springs' future, but not everyone is convinced that the buildings would be a good fit.
- And they're up in Denver too.
- See photos of the $150 million renovation in the works.
- A law passed this year by the state legislature paved the way for more inmates to help fight fires in Colorado. Now they're getting to work.
- The median price for a “detached” single family home in Metro Denver in October was up to $585,000.
- A report released by Colorado's State Auditor’s Office showed that state-run facilities that provide care for honorably discharged veterans and their spouses were better at preventing the spread of COVID-19 than private facilities.
- Jim McKinney’s "Hobbit House" is one of many makeshift homes on cheap plots of land in Park County that attract those with limited means from around the U.S.
- The mayor spoke to a packed ballroom of city influencers inside the Broadmoor Hotel where former mayor Mary Lou Makepeace also received the city’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.
- The median price of a home in September was $440,000.
